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Program: Youth Development Grants Year: 2005
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CAAAV: ORGANIZING ASIAN COMMUNITIES
718-220-7391
2473 Valentine Avenue
Bronx, New York 10458
Jane Sung E Bai Executive Director
718-220-7391
http://www.caaav.org
Size: $30,000
2005
Youth Development Grants
CAAAV organizes low income Asian immigrant communities in Chinatown and the Bronx, New York. Through the Chinatown Justice Project (CJP), launched in 2000, Fujianese immigrant youth organize low-income Chinese tenants and immigrant street vendors to challenge displacement and gentrification in Chinatown. CJP is currently working to build a Chinatown Tenants Union and to develop and advocate for passage of policy initiatives to protect tenants from displacement. The Youth Leadership Project (YLP) based in the Southeast Asian community in the Bronx, focuses on combating poverty through economic development, employment, public education, criminal justice, and immigration/anti-deportation campaigns. YLP initiated the Bronx Immigrant Rights Coalition in 2004 to organize for the cessation of the criminalization and deportation of South Asian immigrants. CAAAV was awarded a $30,000 grant to support the Youth Leadership Project and the Chinatown Justice Project’s continued work on these campaigns.
CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR FAIR EMPLOYMENT (CAFE)
864-235-2926
1 Chick Springs Road, Suite 114
Greenville, South Carolina 29609
Carol Bishop Executive Director
864-235-2926
http://www.cafesc.org/
Size: $30,000
2005
Youth Development Grants
Formed in 1980, CAFE is a statewide, grassroots organization that demands racial and economic justice for working class people and their families. Since its inception, CAFÉ has grown from a small local group to a statewide organization with 15 chapters and over 5,000 dues-paying members. In 1998 and 1999 CAFE formed the Darlington and Laurens Youth Chapters which now have a combined total of over 200 members. Last year they created a new youth chapter in Bennettsville. CAFE youth have been organizing against illegal police searches in schools. In the coming year, CAFE’s goal is to launch a campaign that educates students and parents and challenges the school board about the detriments of the new Individual Education Plan (IEP) legislation, which tracks “low performing” students into non-academic classes that will not prepare them for college. CAFE was awarded a grant of $30,000 to support its statewide youth organizing endeavors and public education work as well as to increase the leadership capacity of its youth chapters.
CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR A BETTER TUNICA COUNTY
662-363-1228
P.O Box 2249
Tunica, Mississippi 38676
Melvin Young Executive Director
662-363-1228
Size: $30,000
2005
Youth Development Grants
Established in 1993, Concerned Citizens For A Better Tunica County, Inc. (Concerned Citizens) is a broad based grassroots leadership development, education, and training organization working to empower the community by developing new leaders and organizers in Tunica and neighboring counties. In July 1999, Tunica Teens in Action (TTIA), the youth component of Concerned Citizens was formed. Among the accomplishments of Concerned Citizens and TTIA are winning the allocation of 12% of the Casino Riverboat gaming revenues for the Tunica public school system and securing $6.3 million for the renovation of dilapidated schools in the area. In the coming year, TTIA will continue its campaign for a student developed school handbook. Through its work on the handbook, TTIA wants to ensure that are equitable and do not push students out of school for minor offenses. Concerned Citizens For A Better Tunica County, Inc. was awarded a $30,000 grant to support Tunica Teens in Action in further developing their youth led campaign to revise the discipline policies in the Tunica school district’s student handbook and to host the second “Youth Summit in the Lower Mississippi Delta."
